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At the Universités d'Été de l'Économie de Demain, held on August 28, 2026 in Paris, a round table on family businesses brought together Camille Vever, Xavier Unkovic, Caroline Schildt and Thibault Petithuguenin. Moderated by Cécile de Lisle, Executive Director of the Center for Family Business, the ...
Twenty times larger in twenty-five years. That is what has happened to assets under management in private equity, and investing in the asset class has become much more common for a wide range of investors. The past three or four years slowed the pace. Guillaume Vuillemey, Associate Professor at HEC ...
By some estimates, more than 80% of AI projects fail to deliver the value expected of them. For Vincent Fraitot, those failures explain very little: it is the successes that are readable, and what they reveal goes well beyond technology. The HEC Paris professor on what it takes to scale an AI ...
This June, the Family Business Center welcomed two cohorts of HEC Paris Summer School participants and launched the Family Business Voices Challenge, inviting students to interview their own family business and uncover the pivotal moments, and sometimes the hard calls, that shaped its story.
"The program transformed my leadership, changed the way I work, and equipped me with tools that I continue to use every day. It wasn't just about learning—it was about creating immediate impact in my organization."
On 26 June, HEC Paris officially launched the HEC Paris Wisdom Frontiers Entrepreneur Program (WFEP) in Beijing, marking the beginning of a new Executive Education initiative designed for a select cohort of Chinese entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Companies rush to define their purpose, sure it will fire up their teams and lift results. Rodolphe Durand has spent ten years checking whether that was true. Few people are better placed to know: he holds the Joly Family Chair in Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris, runs its Purpose Center, and has ...
Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini, Associate Professor in Innovation at HEC Paris, has been awarded the 2026 SYNTEC Conseil–FNEGE Academic “Coup de Cœur” Prize, which recognizes the best research article in management.
On June 22, Junko Adachi, HEC Paris’s representative in Japan, was promoted to the rank of Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor. This distinction recognizes her decades of commitment to fostering closer ties between France and Japan, particularly in the fields of higher education and ...
Trust gets you in the room. It does not make you indispensable once the room gets more technical than you are. Radisha Silva, VP at J.P. Morgan in Geneva, saw that gap coming and went back to school to close it.